Constance Markievicz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
-- Constance Markievicz

#Women #Jewels #Gold
Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.
-- Constance Markievicz

#Terrorist
I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.
-- Constance Markievicz

#Philosophy #War #Women
But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.
-- Constance Markievicz

#Strong #Independent #Republic

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.
Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .
In my case dust has become Gold
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

Constance Markievicz famous quotes

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